# Mitchell Kember

> Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mitchellkember

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Worked on Fuchsia, a new operating system.
• Helped maintain a ~100K LOC compiler stack, contributing everywhere from parser to code generator.
• Designed and implemented FIDL versioning, Fuchsia’s primary API and ABI versioning mechanism.
• Redesigned FIDL Rust bindings for better ergonomics and performance, and migrated 1000s of files.
• Built a Compiler-Explorer-like web app for our tools, used daily by many engineers.
• Participated in the Rust toolchain rotation, involving tasks like minimizing subtle miscompilations.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Worked on Fuchsia, a new operating system.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, California
• Worked on compiler optimizations.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
• Developed a solution for storing millions of intraday data points using Python and Cassandra.
• Implemented new user interface components in TypeScript for the Bloomberg Terminal.
• Worked on a system to distribute pricing engine load using C++ and ZooKeeper.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
• Designed and implemented a file expiration service for Facebook’s data warehouse storage system.
• Took initiative to build missing end-to-end tests for another service, catching a major issue.
• Created a tool to automatically detect flaky unit tests, solving a pain point in the team’s workflow.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Snowflake Computing
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Mateo, California
• Worked on the Java and C++ layers of the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse.
• Implemented, tested, and documented the SQL Binary data type system-wide.
• Designed and built a just-in-time LLVM code generation framework from scratch.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Waterloo, Ontario
• Developed a proof-checking system in Java to be used in SE 212: Logic and Computation.
• Created parsers for seven proof theories using ANTLR4, and built a web front end in JavaScript.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Snowflake Computing
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Mateo, California
• Worked on the Java and C++ layers of the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse.
• Implemented, tested, and documented the SQL Time data type system-wide.
• Wrote efficient code in the query execution engine for many new SQL functions.

### Software Developer Intern @ Shopify
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Ottawa, Ontario
• Worked on several Ruby on Rails projects, including the main Shopify product.
• Led development on a project to connect merchants with Shopify Experts. Modelled communication data in MySQL, and developed an algorithm to dispatch merchant requests to Experts in Ruby.
• Improved internal tools by implementing a flexible system for searching, filtering, and sorting.
• Refactored many parts of the codebase to increase approachability and reduce technical debt.

### General Labourer @ Archer Precision
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Ottawa, Ontario
• Operated a variety of power tools, CNC mills, and lathes.
• Read technical diagrams and verified tolerances using callipers, micrometers, and CMMs.
• Became familiar with nearly all parts of the machining process.


## Education
### Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) in Software Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019

### Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mitchellkember
- Website: http://mitchellkember.com
- GitHub: http://github.com/mk12

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Last updated: 2026-03-22